Author: Alexander GillespiePublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingISBN: 1847318363Size: 69.44 MBFormat: PDF, ePubView: 2662DownloadRead Online
In many regards, this part of the first volume is a series of 'less than ideal' pathways. This is because in an ideal world there would be no combatants because there would be no fighting.

Author: Alexander GillespiePublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingISBN: 184731841XSize: 74.98 MBFormat: PDF, MobiView: 2575DownloadRead Online
This unique work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day.

Author: Alexander GillespiePublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingISBN: 1847318622Size: 43.75 MBFormat: PDF, ePubView: 871DownloadRead Online
This unique new work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day.

Author: Frank MoorePublisher:ISBN:Size: 38.17 MBFormat: PDF, ePubView: 135DownloadRead Online
... Indian captives, combatants or non-combatants. I know of but one deviation
from the code which regulates the warfare between civilized communities, and
that was the destruction of Indian towns, which was supposed to be authorized
upon the ground that we could not bring the war to a termination but by
destroying the means which nourished it. With this single exception, the other
principles of the laws of civilized nations are extended to them, ' and are thus
made law in regard to ...

Author: Calvin ColtonPublisher:ISBN:Size: 30.39 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 819DownloadRead Online
In Six Volumes Calvin Colton, Henry Clay ... I will advance in support of this
position, as applicable to the origin of all law, the principle, that whatever has
been the custom, from the commencement of a subject, whatever has been the
uniform usage, coeval and coexistent with the subject to which it relates, ... So far
as my knowledge extends, from the first settlement at Plymouth or at Jamestown,
it has not been our practice to destroy Indian captives, combatants or non-combatants. I ...

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Its scope is best indicated by the following extracts from the excellent synopsis of
contents which precedes the volume : ('ha ter I.—The Laws of War. ... the use of
poison in war; bombardment of towns; destruction of public buildings, crops and
fruit trees; to the murder of prisoners or the wounded or of surrendered rrisons; to
the destruction of lshing boats; to t e disuse of the declaration of war; to the torture
and mutilation of combatants and non-combatants; to the custom of contributions.